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with care.  Gifts of tablecloths, napkins, lunch cloths, and napkins to match, table runners, towels, bureau scarfs, lamp shades, counterpanes, silk quilts, kimonas, wearing apparel, scarfs, etc., are appropriate.
   The table is adorned in the hostess' finest linen.  Handkerchiefs of silk or linen with guests' initial or monogram serve the purpose of favors and place cards.
   FIFTEENTH YEAR---CRYSTAL:  Vases, glasses, fruit dishes, water bottles, ice tea sets, fruit knives, miscellaneous dishes, etc., are suitable gifts.
   The invitations may be written on frosted cards.  The covering for the table may be either lace or linen; the centerpiece may consist of roses placed on a mirror wreathed in asparagus fern.
   TWENTIETH YEAR---CHINA:  Dishes of fine china are presented.  Use hearts, bells and flowers for decorations.
   TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR---SILVER:  The silver wedding anniversary marks the end of the first quarter of a century; and is usually considered more important than the previous wedding anniversaries.  Due to the economy and beauty of sterling silver, suitable gifts of silver are almost unlimited.  Some are silver vases, candlesticks, picture frames, toilet sets, cigarette cases, perfume bottles, vanity cases, beads, paper weights, jewel cases, slipper buckles, belt buckles, napkin rings, cuff links, watches, lockets, rings, pencils, pens, silver mesh bags, silver handled canes or umbrellas, coin banks, flat or other table silver.
   The invitations should be written with silver ink on silver edged cards.
   The table is prettily trimmed with a low silver bowl filled with pink and white sweet peas, wreathed in smilax. The candlesticks should be silver with silver shades. Corsage bouquets of sweet peas should be provided for the women and boutonniers of white pinks and asparagus for the men.  The place cards may be written with silver ink and have sweet peas painted in water colors.
   FIFTIETH YEAR---GOLDEN: The golden wedding perhaps marks the most important event since the first wedding and should be celebrated in regal style.  The invitations should be written in gold ink on gold edged
cards.  The house should be a bower of golden flowers--daffodils, golden glow, nasturtiums, goldenrod, brilliant leaves, chrysanthemums, aster, etc.  
   The centerpiece should consist of a cut-glass bowl full of yellow flowers, daintily arranged with maiden-hair fern.  Gold lace-paper doilies may be laid on sandwich and cake plates.  Baskets of gold paper hold nuts and candies. Gold band or yellow-decorated dishes should be used when possible.
   The menu may be jellied bouillon, whipped cream, mushrooms and chicken in ramekins, hot rolls, lobster salad garnished with hard boiled yolk of egg riced, graham bread sandwiches, orange sherbet or orange ice, little cakes iced in yellow, white and yellow bon-bons, coffee, souvenir wedding cakes in boxes tied with gold cord.

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